I said this in another thread but I find these 3 interesting.
A couple of these could pop up in Pauper.
Stream of Thought UB Delver may want to give it a go. Martyr's Soul White Weenie decks could use this I suppose. Goblin War Party Gobbos always want more gobbos or it works like an anthem.
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Sure its Christmas-land but someone is going to drop these on Turn One on the play and have a 1/2, 3 1/1's and a 5/4 attacking on turn 2. It will happen.
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Sure its Christmas-land but someone is going to drop these on Turn One on the play and have a 1/2, 3 1/1's and a 5/4 attacking on turn 2. It will happen.
The key is that the non christmas land is also good. Turn 1 Thraben Inspector into Turn 2 this is a very solid play. Or turn 2 two 1 drops or any of the make two tokens for 2 mana into this. It's definitely playable.
Sure its Christmas-land but someone is going to drop these on Turn One on the play and have a 1/2, 3 1/1's and a 5/4 attacking on turn 2. It will happen.
The key is that the non christmas land is also good. Turn 1 Thraben Inspector into Turn 2 this is a very solid play. Or turn 2 two 1 drops or any of the make two tokens for 2 mana into this. It's definitely playable.
It is for sure. Its playable and even slots in I believe to some existing decks. "Free" spells are almost always good enough. There hasn't been an abusable worthy Convoke spell in Pauper yet, this may be the one.
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I think Savage Swipe is the real interesting card from today. Plenty of potential in Mono-G Stompy. And a real unique effect...I've heard of being rewarded for high power, rewarded for low power, but not being rewarded for having a very specific power (besides 1 ala Pendelhaven/Aegis of the Meek, which is basically still "rewarding for low power").
Stream of Thought could be good in Ux Creatureless Control. You don't even have to replicate it to win. Just cast it for 1 while holding up countermagic, shuffling back in a 2nd copy of it or Devious Cover-Up. It's like the Devious Cover-Up wincon, except you can actually replicate it massively if you're in danger of going to time and need to win faster.
Regarding Martyr's Soul... Say if you had four lands, can you tap them all to cast it just so you have no untapped lands (and get the two +1/+1 counter bonus)?
Regarding Martyr's Soul... Say if you had four lands, can you tap them all to cast it just so you have no untapped lands (and get the two +1/+1 counter bonus)?
Check the card again. The lands need to be UNTAPPED not tapped to get the bonus counters. Plus if you have ZERO lands it means you have no lands tapped as well. You could play this versus land destruction and still get a 5/4 creature out if you had the weenies on the battlefield to satisfy Convoke.
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Savage Swipe looks like it goes right into Stompy. It won't kill Angler... but it will kill just about anything else.
Martyr's Soul seems like it ought to be quite playable. I can imagine him out on turn 3 with open mana for backup, which is pretty good. Turn one Benevolent Bodyguard, turn 2 two tokens, turn three - rather unkillable big dude + whatever you feel like.
The new changelings look good - the white one is very likely useful as one more playable which powers up Griffin Rider. As was mentioned, the black one is a rather good roadblock which you can get back with Ghoulcaller's Chant. If the Green one ends up being Colossal Dreadmaw which is also a beast then maybe Wirewood Savage can finally become a thing. Even a 5/6 for 6 would be fine enough, except I'm a bit sceptical as it'd also be an elf. The blue one is likely to just be a Wind Drake, and the red one is likely to be a 3/2 menace guy for 2R, none of which are terribly exciting.
Headless Specter has the stats that mono-b devotion would love, but mono-b devotion isn't really the kind of deck that goes hellbent easily. Looks like just a nice pile of references, for now. It could make quite a mess if you follow it up with Last Rites, though, and that card's been looking for a deck for a while now.
Goblin War Party is probably quite playable in Goblinstorm as a few-off. As long as you can ramp, and token goblins can indeed ramp, it's like a silly-but-still-lethal Goblin Bushwhacker. Niche, but not to be discounted.
And snow lands make me hopeful for actually useful Snow cards. Not sure where the design space for that would be, exactly, but here's hoping that someone spent some time over the years pondering how you make one or two.
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Check the card again. The lands need to be UNTAPPED not tapped to get the bonus counters. Plus if you have ZERO lands it means you have no lands tapped as well. You could play this versus land destruction and still get a 5/4 creature out if you had the weenies on the battlefield to satisfy Convoke.
I'm pretty pumped for Stream of Thought. This will definitely find a home in a few decks, but particularly in Turbo Fog, since it mills and also gets back lost pieces and fogs. Replicate is just gravy on that card as well. I'm looking forward to playing it.
Martyr's Soul is quite nice. It would be very easy to get this out on turn 3 with a deck like White Weenies or Soul Sisters. Turn 1 Soul Warden, Turn 2 Alarmschlagen into Turn 3 Martyr's Soul + whatever else you have in hand leaves you with an impressive board. White Weenies is back?
Fists of Flame is an incredibly powerful card for Pauper. It will pair well with tons of cantrips that most people run anyways and act as a huge cantripping win condition is some cases, or just a good combat trick that doesn't have you down a card. I love it. It will also be a staple in Zada, Hedron Grinder PDH.
Savage Swipe seems really pushed in power level as well. It doesn't require too much building around to be good, but it does restrict what creatures you can kill with it in pauper. Stompy runs plenty of 2 power guys, but wouldn't it rather pay an extra mana to not have that restriction?
EDIT: Holy, Scour all Possibilities is an amazing card! This will fit into almost any control shell with Blue. Scry 2 and draw is a good deal for 2 mana when you know you can play it again for 5. Awesome value!
Orcish Hellraiser has pretty nice stats for a common. The echo cost is only R, making it quite easy to play other cards the next turn, which was always the main drawback of Echo. Otherwise, a 3/2 for only 2 that always does stuff when he dies is pretty excellent.
Orcish Hellraiser has pretty nice stats for a common. The echo cost is only R, making it quite easy to play other cards the next turn, which was always the main drawback of Echo. Otherwise, a 3/2 for only 2 that always does stuff when he dies is pretty excellent.
Its not too bad. It probably would have been too much asking for it to have Haste. I could have used it in an aggro deck then. As it stands I have no use for it but it may fit in somewhere.
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Don't look very promising unless you finally get to play a 1 drop Angel in your Angel Tribal deck.
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A 1-mana Prophetic Prism that costs a snow mana just got spoiled. This card is legit. It's also a brilliant design for a card, since it's powerful but can't be effectively used by the existing decks that run Prism: Boros Monarch and Tron. So it encourages new archetypes, not the status quo.
Snow-Go has been a niche deck, a 4-color URGB control deck that runs Skred and Mystical Teachings, and this could help a lot with it's mana. Plus we'll probably see more snow-matters cards at common for it, since snow matters is primarily a UG archetype in this set.
I don't know, the angel could find a home in equipment based aggro decks. The vigilance could be quite useful.
I've been playing Healer's Hawk in White Weenie and liking it. The thing is, Healer's Hawk really combos well with Bonesplitter. Segovian Angel could use some other sort of equipment/aura the also boosts it's toughness, making it powerful on the attack and also stonewalling the opponent. Maybe the oldschool Empyrial Armor?
Weather the Storm is definitely one of the most powerful lifegain spells ever printed at common. It will be quite easy to get this up to 9 life for just 2 mana, which is an incredible deal. Against a deck like burn, I could see this going as high as 12 life.
Spell Snuff is much better than it looks. Pauper has been desperately wanting a card like Dismiss and this is the best knock-off yet, mostly because of the mana cost. I've played my share of Fateful Hour cards; it is relevant a lot more often than you think. Especially for hardcore control decks. That being said, this is Cancel most of the time, which is just bad in Pauper.
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I said this in another thread but I find these 3 interesting.
A couple of these could pop up in Pauper.
Stream of Thought UB Delver may want to give it a go.
Martyr's Soul White Weenie decks could use this I suppose.
Goblin War Party Gobbos always want more gobbos or it works like an anthem.
Any thoughts?
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Boros Weenie/Kuldotha/RW artifact style deck
T1: Ancient Den Thraben Inspector, Simian Spirit Guide or Lotus Petal a Kuldotha Rebirth sacking the Ancient Den. Tap 2 gobbos and the Inspector for a free Martyr's Soul that comes out as a 5/4. There are another couple of ways this could work as well.
Sure its Christmas-land but someone is going to drop these on Turn One on the play and have a 1/2, 3 1/1's and a 5/4 attacking on turn 2. It will happen.
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The key is that the non christmas land is also good. Turn 1 Thraben Inspector into Turn 2 this is a very solid play. Or turn 2 two 1 drops or any of the make two tokens for 2 mana into this. It's definitely playable.
It is for sure. Its playable and even slots in I believe to some existing decks. "Free" spells are almost always good enough. There hasn't been an abusable worthy Convoke spell in Pauper yet, this may be the one.
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Stream of Thought could be good in Ux Creatureless Control. You don't even have to replicate it to win. Just cast it for 1 while holding up countermagic, shuffling back in a 2nd copy of it or Devious Cover-Up. It's like the Devious Cover-Up wincon, except you can actually replicate it massively if you're in danger of going to time and need to win faster.
Venomous Changeling has potential application in Mono-B Zombies as "removal" against Gurmag Angler which can be recurred with Ghoulcaller's Chant and such.
Imposter of the Sixth Pride will be a boon to janky tribal decks forever, like Soldiers or Griffins with Griffin Rider.
Headless Specter is a crazy card. Don't know how or where, but it has potential.
Check the card again. The lands need to be UNTAPPED not tapped to get the bonus counters. Plus if you have ZERO lands it means you have no lands tapped as well. You could play this versus land destruction and still get a 5/4 creature out if you had the weenies on the battlefield to satisfy Convoke.
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Martyr's Soul seems like it ought to be quite playable. I can imagine him out on turn 3 with open mana for backup, which is pretty good. Turn one Benevolent Bodyguard, turn 2 two tokens, turn three - rather unkillable big dude + whatever you feel like.
The new changelings look good - the white one is very likely useful as one more playable which powers up Griffin Rider. As was mentioned, the black one is a rather good roadblock which you can get back with Ghoulcaller's Chant. If the Green one ends up being Colossal Dreadmaw which is also a beast then maybe Wirewood Savage can finally become a thing. Even a 5/6 for 6 would be fine enough, except I'm a bit sceptical as it'd also be an elf. The blue one is likely to just be a Wind Drake, and the red one is likely to be a 3/2 menace guy for 2R, none of which are terribly exciting.
Headless Specter has the stats that mono-b devotion would love, but mono-b devotion isn't really the kind of deck that goes hellbent easily. Looks like just a nice pile of references, for now. It could make quite a mess if you follow it up with Last Rites, though, and that card's been looking for a deck for a while now.
Goblin War Party is probably quite playable in Goblinstorm as a few-off. As long as you can ramp, and token goblins can indeed ramp, it's like a silly-but-still-lethal Goblin Bushwhacker. Niche, but not to be discounted.
And snow lands make me hopeful for actually useful Snow cards. Not sure where the design space for that would be, exactly, but here's hoping that someone spent some time over the years pondering how you make one or two.
Crap. How can I miss that. Thanks!
I'm pretty pumped for Stream of Thought. This will definitely find a home in a few decks, but particularly in Turbo Fog, since it mills and also gets back lost pieces and fogs. Replicate is just gravy on that card as well. I'm looking forward to playing it.
Martyr's Soul is quite nice. It would be very easy to get this out on turn 3 with a deck like White Weenies or Soul Sisters. Turn 1 Soul Warden, Turn 2 Alarmschlagen into Turn 3 Martyr's Soul + whatever else you have in hand leaves you with an impressive board. White Weenies is back?
Fists of Flame is an incredibly powerful card for Pauper. It will pair well with tons of cantrips that most people run anyways and act as a huge cantripping win condition is some cases, or just a good combat trick that doesn't have you down a card. I love it. It will also be a staple in Zada, Hedron Grinder PDH.
Savage Swipe seems really pushed in power level as well. It doesn't require too much building around to be good, but it does restrict what creatures you can kill with it in pauper. Stompy runs plenty of 2 power guys, but wouldn't it rather pay an extra mana to not have that restriction?
EDIT: Holy, Scour all Possibilities is an amazing card! This will fit into almost any control shell with Blue. Scry 2 and draw is a good deal for 2 mana when you know you can play it again for 5. Awesome value!
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It also seems fun the tortured existance + golgari brownscale decks as a way to go wide to close the game out.
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Its not too bad. It probably would have been too much asking for it to have Haste. I could have used it in an aggro deck then. As it stands I have no use for it but it may fit in somewhere.
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Magical Christmas land turn 2: Burning-Tree Emissary times 3 then Manamorphose times 2 then Weather the Storm for 18 life.
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Don't look very promising unless you finally get to play a 1 drop Angel in your Angel Tribal deck.
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Snow-Go has been a niche deck, a 4-color URGB control deck that runs Skred and Mystical Teachings, and this could help a lot with it's mana. Plus we'll probably see more snow-matters cards at common for it, since snow matters is primarily a UG archetype in this set.
I've been playing Healer's Hawk in White Weenie and liking it. The thing is, Healer's Hawk really combos well with Bonesplitter. Segovian Angel could use some other sort of equipment/aura the also boosts it's toughness, making it powerful on the attack and also stonewalling the opponent. Maybe the oldschool Empyrial Armor?
Spell Snuff is much better than it looks. Pauper has been desperately wanting a card like Dismiss and this is the best knock-off yet, mostly because of the mana cost. I've played my share of Fateful Hour cards; it is relevant a lot more often than you think. Especially for hardcore control decks. That being said, this is Cancel most of the time, which is just bad in Pauper.
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